Is This How You Imagined Anne of Green Gables?
‘As It Happens’ interviewed a Minnetonka resident about a new cover for the popular books that changed the redheaded main character to a sultry blonde.
“Red hair is my life long sorrow.” Fans of the Anne of Green Gables series will instantly recognize that as the titular character’s lament. But a modern update has given Anne a makeover that’s led to a change even more different than the time Anne accidentally died her hair green. A version of the series put together on the self-publishing site CreateSpace and sold on Amazon portrays Anne with blond hair and a lustful look that’s more Twilight than the free-spirited character Lucy Maud Montgomery created. “There isn’t one element of that picture—from the arm position, to the hair to the face, to the shirt, to the body—that says Anne of Green Gables in any way,” Mary Beth Cavert, a Minnetonka resident with the Lucy Maud Montgomery Literary …
James Warden
3:01 pm on Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Beautifully stated, Caron. more ›